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What is the Difference Between a 401k and an IRA?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

A 401(k) is a qualified retirement plan that is sponsored by an employer. It allows employees to deduct a portion of their salary and put it into an account that is invested for their retirement. Some 401(k) plans will offer the ability to take a loan from the account and pay it back, with interest. ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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How To Grow Your Retirement Business In The 2020 Economic Crisis (Webinar)

Indigo Marketing Agency

How To Grow Your Retirement Plan Business In The 2020 Economic Crisis. We’ve partnered with the experts at The Retirement Learning Center to update advisors on how the retirement plan landscape has been altered by the 2020 economic crisis. Save your spot today! So I’ll let John take it away from here.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

With many of the plans still in existence, employers have placed a freeze on funding them, which is often the beginning of the process to eliminate the plans altogether. In other words, the large majority of us can no longer rely on our employers to fund our retirement plans. We are on our own. Sources: 1.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Mettler is a CFP® certificant (INSERT LINK WHEN AVAIL) and he says that even the CFP Board passed a fiduciary guideline. Macchia chimes in, saying he finds it ironic that the first module in the CFP program is risk management, which he interprets to be about insurance. They told him to read the FAQs (lol)! About Gary Mettler.